We learn, that Joseph Wilson, who lived on Clark's Creek, Montgomery County, while under the 
influence of mental derangement, hung his wife to a sapling, in the woods, near his house. When 
found by the neighbors, she was entirely dead. Wilson made off with himself; at last advices had 
not been taken. Mrs. Wilson was about 50 years old, and has left a number of children. We learn 
that she had left her husband several times, during his crazy fits; but in this fatal instance, 
it would seem that he was more self possessed than usual on such occasions; it is thought that 
he must have decoyed his wife into the woods, and knocked her down before hanging her up to the 
tree. Western Carolinian.

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